World Quotes - Page 632

The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world of enamel advertising signs, the history of grin-and-bear-it industrial food.

Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.

We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed a fake mummy made from old strips of linen wrapped around a dummy of mud. If, in our modern world, you feel that there are a lot of "mud mummies" around you, get rid of the mud.

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.